Should i Upgrade to 1080 or Something else

Mouse1973

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Current Rig is as follows:
M/b: Gigabyte Ga-z97x-ud5h-bk
CPU: I7 4790k
Power: nzxt 700w
Ram: Tridentx 16gb DDR3 1600 (PC312800)
H/D: Samsung EVO 250gb w/ an 2tb storage drive
GPU: Gigabyte gtx 970 g1 OC edition

Ok i have started playing a new game Shroud of the avatar which is still be optimized. And having tons of Frame rate issues. "low teens in places at lowest setting" but outside towns get a steady 60 fps at lowest and low 40's at max setting

I do not own any 4k monitors so only playing at 1080

Was gonna go for the 1070 but with current prices might as well go 1080. so questions are:

Would i bottle neck the 1080 on current rig
Would the 1080 be worth it for 1080i resolution or should i just bite the bullet and get the 1070 or would the 1060 be an improvement over the 970 i know according to gpuboss the 1060 really does not do better then the 970

Any guidance here would be very helpful




 
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Now isn't a good to buy GPUs as you've already stated.
With that said, go with 1070 or above, the improvement between the 970 and the 1060 isn't worth the price.

It will be a waste of the GTX 1080 potential to be run with a 1080p monitor 60Hz no doubt, even at 144Hz it would...
Your current CPU is still quite powerful, no significant bottleneck will occur, only in very CPU-intensive games, otherwise? Minimal.

So, IMHO, if you can, wait for the prices to normalize again and then get a 1070 that'd would be wiser. Or if you wanna go all in, grab a 1080 now and later on a 1440p monitor with G-Sync that'd be great. ( Expensive as well, )

manddy123

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Now isn't a good to buy GPUs as you've already stated.
With that said, go with 1070 or above, the improvement between the 970 and the 1060 isn't worth the price.

It will be a waste of the GTX 1080 potential to be run with a 1080p monitor 60Hz no doubt, even at 144Hz it would...
Your current CPU is still quite powerful, no significant bottleneck will occur, only in very CPU-intensive games, otherwise? Minimal.

So, IMHO, if you can, wait for the prices to normalize again and then get a 1070 that'd would be wiser. Or if you wanna go all in, grab a 1080 now and later on a 1440p monitor with G-Sync that'd be great. ( Expensive as well, )
 
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